[simonw]

It hasn't been a print-first publication in many years - the site was updated weekly.

It's also where a lot of the facts on Wikipedia came from. This is a real loss.

I trust CIA over official population numbers from a lot of countries. There was a thread on here recently that pointed out a lot of countries haven't conducted an effective census in many years, if at all: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46810027

[edsu]

Yes, apart from the loss of the publication as a historical artifact, it is the loss of the continuing process that kept it up to date as a representation of the present (with whatever flaws you always have with such representations).

[stopbulying]

Hopefully the next admin will regain an understanding of the value of the World Facebook collection of somewhat-vetted facts and opinions.

[shmeeed]

Please no World Facebook

[stopbulying]

What if they call theirs Truthbook Bader Ginsberg? Like RBGPAC

[stopbulying]

(Truth Social went out of their way to copy the look of Twitter by styling their Mastodon instance with the Soapbox theme.)

(Elon Musk was the only contributor to a PAC that claimed to represent a deceased Supreme Court Justice.)